. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. JUDGING DAIRY CATTLE '195 eating milk production, but practical experience has rated them as important according to their size and development. Small wells are associated with similarly small veins, and together they hmit the supply of blood passing through the udder and thus affect milk production. SUPPOSE SOME ONE SHOULD ASK YOU 1. What is meant by a "blocky" body? 2. How you could tell whether a beef animal was fat or not? 3. To give the indications of quality? 4. How much a beef animal should weigh at 30 months old? 5. To desc
. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. JUDGING DAIRY CATTLE '195 eating milk production, but practical experience has rated them as important according to their size and development. Small wells are associated with similarly small veins, and together they hmit the supply of blood passing through the udder and thus affect milk production. SUPPOSE SOME ONE SHOULD ASK YOU 1. What is meant by a "blocky" body? 2. How you could tell whether a beef animal was fat or not? 3. To give the indications of quality? 4. How much a beef animal should weigh at 30 months old? 5. To describe condition? 6. What position the front legs should take, and why? 7. How the head and neck of the bull differ from those of the cow? 8. To describe the triple- wedge form? 9. The meaning of tem- perament in dairy cattle? 10. To give the most important features of the dairy cow score card? 11. What kind of rib de- velopment should be looked for in the dairy cow? 12. To describe the most 1 â , , J. r 1 1 o Fig- 119- i "'' Kind oi row one should not deSU-able form of udder? own. Photograph by the SOME INTERESTING THINGS TO DO 13. Scoring your own or a neighbor's beef animals. 14. Picking out the best individuals among cattle in a feed lot. 15. Comparing the best and poorest dairy cows in the herd. Why is one best and the other poorest? 16. If you have a dairy herd at home, make a few group studies of four animals in each. '" 17. Organize a local beef or dairy cattle Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles Sumner, 1860-1939. St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
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